Had a try at the weekend but I didn't have a female adapter handy to bring up the serial console.
I did manage to try out some Centos 5.4 kernels, all of which worked in the Dom0 environment. I'm now running * 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5xen
Also I upgraded a Centos 5.3 DomU to 5.5 with no issues, and it is running the most recent Centos 5.5 Xen kernel.
What is really odd is that the freeze or kernel panic with a 5.5 kernel can vary. On one occasional I got as far as the single user prompt before the machine locked up, but usually it dies as udev start.
I'll try and grab a cable/adapter to try again, but it will be a couple of days before I can bring the server down again.
Steve
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:37:17 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik@iki.fi wrote:
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 01:56:33PM +1300, Steven Ellis wrote:
I've recently upgraded a Centos 5.3 machine to Centos 5.5. The
hardware
isn't HVM capabile so I'm only running para-virt guests.
Using a vanilla i386 kernel boots without, but the newer kernel-xen
locks
up the Dom0 after a couple of minute. I'm only booting into single
user
mode for these tests so no VMs are active.
* kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 - no issues * kernel-xen-2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 - lock up * kernel-2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 - no issuesFor the moment I've switched back to the older Xen kernel, athough
I'm
still running the newer Xen Hypervisor.
Please set up a serial console and capture the full error/crash messages and post the log here.
Examples here: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenSerialConsole
-- Pasi
My current Xen packages are
* xen-3.0.3-105.el5_5.5 * kernel-xen-2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 * kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 * kmod-xfs-xen-0.4-2 * xen-libs-3.0.3-105.el5_5.5 * kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 * kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 * xen-devel-3.0.3-105.el5_5.5Prior to the upgrade I had the following installed under Centos 5.3
* kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 * kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 * xen-libs-3.0.3-80.el5_3.2 * xen-devel-3.0.3-80.el5_3.2 * kmod-xfs-xen-0.4-2 * kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 * kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 * xen-3.0.3-80.el5_3.2Booting Dom0 with kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 everything appears
to
work normally and all of my Guests are up and running.
If I boot with kernel-xen-2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 the boot normally gets
to
around udev and the system locks up. On a couple of occasions it did
mange
to boot but reported some files were corrupted. I'm worried that
there is
an issue running this kernel where the root file system is LVM on top
of
Raid 1.
Anyone on this list have tips on diagnosing the issue, or come across
a
similar problem themselves.
Steve
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